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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Porting rules is one of the responsibilities of keeping them.
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
>Bebe Awesome shout-out. Missing: Cabaret Voltaire, Art of Noise, Yes ..
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Multi-tasking that didn't suck. Same as we use it now, to be frank. Unix workstations as an interaction model have persisted so long because it works just great. I was writing a lot of Unix software in that period - database apps, bus
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Work on not seeing class at all - this is the ultimate fluidity. Embrace differing views. It can be done in a way that makes everyone win.
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Some destruction is necessary for all creation, but generally its a bad idea to destroy the middle class instead of shoring it up. >making bullshit Make things that empower people and give them the ability to be class-fluid. That's
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
One of my favourite 8-bit computers of the era is the Oric-1/Atmos micro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer) It still to this day has a thriving scene, lots of interesting quirky programs still being wr
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
> .. the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part of the business with the most complex, unknowable work. .. >_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity. In my opinion, the conf
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
I have written device drivers for, literally, decades now. Its the old guys who write the best drivers, naturally. For me, Asterinas represents a refreshing way to approach some thorny problems in the embedded space, in which embedded-Linux
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
I wanted it to work, but the font used doesn't help. With a better font, amber-on-black is restful.
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
I wonder what the metrics would look like when tested on a tablet device, i.e. no mouse, just finger-drag?
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
If you're really objecting to new information systems being created from an existing historical/cultural corpus' as a means of making cultural treasures more accessible to a literate audience, are you really a hacker ? The
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
I agree with you completely and will happily join you into the grey zone by stating simply, anyone who objects to new information systems being created on the basis of heritage/historical/cultural grounds, is just a wannabe hacke
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
So .. you're willing to learn Maori in order to gain equality, or not? I personally see nothing wrong with this classification system, and if it serves its intended purpose of making Maori literature more accessible, then what the heck
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
"Religion" literally means, 'the device which binds people into one', and is not the only form of this very same device. Latin religare ‘to bind’. We are all bound "in legion" (literally, by the strong, cured l
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Has there been a final solution to the VSCode phoning-home problem? Last time I tried to use it in my environment, it triggered too many 'external network requests' for the liking of our IT guy. We relegated it to the "Do No
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
I remember getting computer magazines for birthday presents in the 70's/80's, which you could play into your computer from Dad's record player and load up a few of the type-ins .. I had a small suite of them, as well as
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
All it needs is a stamp that is a flip-out groove player, you just put one of the other stamps on it, blow, and listen ..
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
>Lua is such a treat. It sure is. I've been using Lua professionally and personally for some decades now, and I think that there is no need to be surprised that more projects don't provide a Lua scripting layer, because actuall
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
I already do this with UTM. Whats the difference? Worth converting?
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Disclaimer: 55 year old here. I've been programming computers since I was 8. I say this only so that it is understood that I have seen multiple generations of humanity acquiring and discarding multiple iterations of technology, and c
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
In 1996, I started an online service for musicians which spanned continents, and gave a very small, elite group of us, a servicable means of distributing our .txt and .zip (and .AIF .. .mp3! oh my!) files around the world in a way we could,
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Unethical parents. Parents who are so detached, themselves, that they cannot see the harm being done to their children. That's the point with abusive techniques such as this - they become generationally intertwined. Its about the kids
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
Here in Austria, we are being threatened with a visit from the bayliff if we don't pay the "ORF tax", which funds television and radio transmissions. Its pretty heinous, especially for those of us who simply don't consum
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
The Tatung Einstein is a great cross platform development system for Z80 based machines. You can do a lot with it, in an old school fashion, for systems like the Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC and so on.
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
> Learning projects like this is about to get a lot less accessible due to the extreme tariffs and elimination of the de minimis exemption. Only for Americans, though. Plenty of kids in third world countries can benefit from the technolo
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
All we really need is to get Starship finished, and then open source it. Once that's out there, and the Germans and the Japanese and the Australians can all build their own, then space .. itself .. will be the true haven of free thinke
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
This is great news for those of us who are into retro computing. Not just because its a great magazine, but it indicates the rise of the retro-computing market as a source of revenue. There is very definitely an upswell of interest in older
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
For audio applications, high performance display updates are important. The richer the font, the higher-performance the GUI in these cases. Render 4,000 independent graphic objects as quickly as possible? May as well let the operating syst
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
There are different font files for each graph type.
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by helpfulContrib 1y ago
The very fun BASIC 10 Liner competition organizers are set to judge this years winners .. have you caught up with the previous years greatest hits? https://www.homeputerium.de Personally as a huge fan of this competition (not en

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